Social and Sexual RevolutionEssays on Marx and Reich

A collection of essays by Bertell Ollman. Ollman tackles issues such as Karl Marx's concepts of class, class consciousness, and communism; he argues for the absorption of Wilhelm Reich's insights about the social function of sexual repression in maintaining capitalist relations; and he dicusses the various problems involved in trying to teach 'Marxism' in an academic context without destroying its central purpose as an instrument of class struggle.

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Table of Contents

Preface

I. Marx1. Towards Class Consciousness Next Time: Marx and the Working Class2. Marx's Use of "Class"3. Marx's Vision of Communism4. Marxism and Political Science: Prolegomenon to a Debate on Marx's Method

II. Reich5. Social and Sexual Revolution6. The Marxism of Wilhelm Reich: The Social Function of Sexual Repression